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Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2015

Perfect size for me. Good reception, good features. The only objection is that it's missing features that I got used to on my old phone. Some people might enjoy relearning how to use a phone every couple of years but I'm past that.

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Napcho

Great phone/great value.

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2015

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I think this phone is the best phone for this value - midrange. Any question about phone might ask for me .
Works great , but not a $ 600 phone ...
I 'm not punctuating with five stars because i could not run 4G -LTE yet. I am using it in Buenos Aires, Argentina .
I Hope to be helpfull

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Gilberto Molina

I inform you that I am very satisfied with the purchase of Motorola phone made for you

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2015

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Dear Sirs. I inform you that I am very satisfied with the purchase of Motorola phone made for you. Thank you. congratulations

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Zac

New Moto G - Still one of the best budget phone around

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2015

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First of all, Motorola made it fairly confusing as there are now multiple variants of this phone. So in this review I will refer to the version numbers as follows:
- Version 1 Moto G: 3G, single-SIM, 4.5in HD screen, 8GB/16GB storage (XT1032 - released in 2013)
- Version 2 Moto G: 4G, single-SIM, 4.5in HD screen, 8GB storage (XT1039 - released in June 2014)
- Version 3 Moto G: 3G, dual-SIM, 5in HD screen, 8GB storage (XT1068 - released in September 2014)
- Version 4 Moto G: 4G, single-SIM, 5in HD screen, 8GB storage (XT1072 - released in March 2015)

I owned a Moto G version 2 (XT1039) which was defective, hence I replaced it with the 2015 version 4. Below is a quick summary of the phone Version 4 (XT1072) and what it does well and where it falls short. This is a non exhaustive list, so if you have specific questions about this phone, please post a question below and I'll get back to you.

The Good
- Beautiful 5 inch HD Screen IPS with 720p (294 ppi) ideal with wide viewing angles and works well for web browsing or watching movies
- Good all round performance and using it feels smooth, fast and responsive making it great for everyday tasks such as listening to music web browsing or messaging
- Improved camera (8M pixels) with good results in day light
- Great Battery Life (improved 2390mAh non-removable battery) and under general usage such as listening to music, browsing the web, messaging, it easily lasts a whole day (with around 40% remaining after 24 hours)
- Fast 4G Connectivity
- Micro SD slot up for extra storage (Currently using Sandisk 32GB Class 10)
- Near stock Android experience and bloat free interface and Motorola promises fast upgrade to new Android version
- Excellent build quality, it feels sturdy and Gorilla Glass ensures it can withstand minor accidental drops, etc.
- Good call quality - works well and nothing out of the ordinary here

The Bad
- Slightly on the chunky side and less comfortable to hold than the 4.5 inch versions
- Camera is struggles in low light situations
- The phone doesn't come with a charger or earphones (not an issue for me but potential buyers expecting those might incur extra cost)
- 8GB of internal storage is rather small by today's standards. This equates to approximately 5GB when taking into account the space used by Android operating system. This is not an issue for me as I am using a 32GB micro SD card, I want to inform potential buyers.
- Motorola Assist is a useful and simple software for example silencing phone automatically during meetings. However, I find this more complicated on Android 5.0 with the concept of downtime and priority. For example, downtime will disable all notification including the notification LED light. This is more of an issue with Android rather than the phone itself.

Conclusion
If you currently own any previous versions of Moto G, then it may not be worth upgrading as under the hood, it is essentially the same phone (Snapdragon 400 Quad core with 1GB RAM). If you are looking for a replacement phone for an Android phone over 2 years old, then it is a great buy.
While last year the Moto G (version 3) was the best budget phone, this year the new Moto E 4G is better value and is worth considering and costs £50 less – but for me the better screen and camera still worth the extra money; you will not be dissappointed - Highly recommended

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Andy Jay

Good, budget phone.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2015

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It could definitely use the 16gb internal storage provided in other markets, as very little is actually useable.
I do have the phone running with a 64BG Micro Sd, Word of warning, allow the phone to format it or it wont recognise the card. On the positive side a lot of apps can be moved to this as well.
Good quality screen.
Phone seems to run smooth with all apps, although not tried with heavy games.
I decided to buy the single sim 4G LTE version as I already have a much more powerful dual sim phone as used for work and this is great as a second handset.
Battery life is fantastic and just keeps going for a good couple of days.
Slight distortion on calls sometimes, but could be network related or the phone of course id fully under warranty.

A good introduction to smartphones, probably more suited to younger of less tech savvy users however.

For the price however, cant't really go wrong.

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Owen

Okay

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2015

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Overall: Used as a replacement phone to tide me over while the other is being repaired. Screen is beautiful and the camera is decent enough. The phone is just so slow and laggy in comparison to other phones I have used.

Limited internal storage means constant data management and frequent moving of apps to SD card to free up space for those apps that can't be moved, to update. Call quality isn't outstanding - but it's certainly not the worst. Media - my biggest gripe with this phone. Watching videos with the front facing speakers is a treat. The BT connection and WiFi connection (or lack thereof) is something else entirely.The constant drops are irritating to say the least, but then is that the phone or Android OS? I find listening to music via Google Play over a BT connection to my car stereo a nightmare, constant buffering - be that due to the phones RAM or available storage - who knows, but the RAM does fill up quickly, very quickly and as a consequence, the whole user experience is affected.

Once the dialy driver is returned / fixed, this will be wiped clean, and only used as a phone to take out 'on an evening' - one that I don't need too much from, the odd call, text, photo - but one that is easier to.... replace. I doubt that I would use this device outside of a festival or a night out, weekend away or holiday. It just cannot deliver on the user experience that I would expect of a modern, smartphone.

This is perfect for those new to Android; moto have done a decent enough job of it, with little bloat and stock UI - a great starter phone. But for those who are in the top tier of devices, the S4/5/6, OnePlus One, HTC M8/9 etc - I wouldn't recommend using this phone as a daily driver/device. It just doesn't stack up to those tier phones, which, is to be expected seeing as it's a fraction of the cost. Yes, I realise that's like comparing a grape to a bottle of wine - I know. But that's what this is, a good (starter) phone, not the phone I would want to be tied into a contract with. This will be my backup device from here on out.

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Michael

One 'smart' phone!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2016

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I am a phone geek.. This is an awesome phone. I should leave it there really, but no. A few years back I left the walled garden of Apple and bought an HTC One, a better specced phone in every way and it took Apple years to catch up to that standard, debatable if they actually have or not. I digress. The HTC was a work phone and I needed an upgrade to a failing Blackberry for my personal phone, I didn't want to spend the £500+ on a 'top of the range' smart phone so looked around. Motorola did something clever and made a phone that catered for the lower end of the market, I think clever as a lot of other companies were aiming for the top end price wise and there were a lot of people out there wanting a smart phone but not wanting to spend the money. So along came the Moto G range.. It's got a good screen, can be bright enough, sharp enough and responds to the touch like it should. The size of screen is adequate (any more and you're getting into phablet territory) the speakers are good, I listen to the radio a lot on it and it can be heard clearly from one room to another. The camera isn't great and that's the most obvious difference between this and the top end range, but it does for what I need and ism't a deal breaker. I use a Ringke case and have dropped the phone several times without concern, it's gotten damp and again no issues. Currently running Marshmallow 6.0 well, battery life is ace better than any other smartphone I've tried. I don't make a lot of calls on it but I'd say I charge it every two days in light use, otherwise it lasts a day easily in general use. In use all apps work fine, the speed of processor is great for general use - I don't know about gaming on it - but for calls, browsing, emails, Google Maps, texts, messenger etc it works like a faithful servant! Overall, a lot of phone for the money and if you put it in a leather case next to phone 3 x it's price I doubt you'd notice the difference

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Arron

Motorola loves your wallet, but in the good way.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2015

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I've heard nothing but praise about this phone, and after using it myself for a couple of days I can see why it gets such praise; The Moto G is a budget phone that doesn't belong in a budget price bracket. This phone could easily sell for £300+ with a Samsung or HTC logo attached to it.

So what do I like about this headset? Everything bar the internals.

The screen is gorgeous. A 5" 720p screen might not sound like much these days, but the quality is next to none. Text is nice to read, colours look great, if a bit washed out, and the slim bezels alone make this phone seem like a mid range to high end phone.

The dual front facing speakers are great; decent at medium volumes but slightly distorted at high levels. Still much better than phones whose speakers are in the wrong places, such as the downward facing speakers on the iPhone and Samsung phones!

Battery life is also great. Definitely an all-day battery, unless you're a heavy user in which case it will still probably last most of the day.

The inclusion of a Micro SD card slot make this perfect for listening to a music library or watching films, the sound quality for headphones are also really good!

The only gripe I have with this phone is the internals. With 1GB Ram and a Snapdragon 400 processor this phone can lag on intensive applications such as games, but otherwise navigating around the phone and using typical apps like Facebook and Instagram are perfectly fine.

Instagram? Camera. The cameras on this thing are actually surprisingly good. You'd think that with a budget phone the area they'd compromise the most are the cameras, but they haven't! A standard 2MP selfie camera and decent rear facing 8MP camera make this phone a decent snapper! Normal light pictures are decent, but it suffers in low-light.

Overall, would I recommend this phone? Heck yes. If you're looking for a phone below £200, then this phone will not let you down; it should be your first choice. Some people seem to think that Motorola aren't a good brand compared to the more well known Samsung, with Motorola's last noticeable phone being the Motorola Razr.

However, Motorola is back and it's not going anywhere, as shown by their latest phones: The Moto G, Moto E, Moto X and the Nexus 6.

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Zulliekinz

Spend some extra money on the 3rd or 4th gen, this isn't worth it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2017

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Had this phone for two years now, bought it as an "upgrade" to save hassle from my previous iPhone, total joke honestly.

Straight up this phone has some decent specs (Which is why this review isn't just 1 star):
- Screen is quality and is mega resistant to drops + cracks even without a case, at least mine was
- Battery life is standard, requiring one charge overnight with moderate data use throughout the day
- Camera takes good quality snaps

Other than that it's just so much effort. The 8 Gb internal memory for a start is actually <4 Gb when including the OS. This leaves about 1 - 2 Gb of actual space you can viably use for apps + everything else, because the phone is rammed with Google apps you will never use but can't delete, taking up space for no reason. I have at the moment a grand total of 6 apps installed right now on top of the "forced upon" Google one's; 3 of which are <20 Mb, and my internal memory is full. Android have tried fixing this recently by offering you the ability of using an SD card to bolster this lack of IM, brilliant, so you get the choice of having an SD to either act as IM or be a floating memory ship for photos (and really only photos) between your PC and phone. This would be excellent if it actually worked. When using an SD card as IM, apps aren't affected by this as they can only function on the ACTUAL internal memory. So you're still massively limited. Photos will happily work though, so great, I can have 32 Gb of photos. Music will not, ESPECIALLY if you have Spotify. For some reason Spotify's app seems to be consistent with all other Android phones, but not this one. I pay for premium and honestly half the time it's pointless. On top of the storage issues the phone will occasionally just reboot itself and wipe Spotify data, this has happened to me about 4 or 5 times now. No other data other than Spotify, so you'll have to download all your songs again, but you've still got 32 Gb of photo space so that's fine.

There is a 100 % RAM leak issue with this phone too. It was absolute murder when I first received it on Lollipop, now it's on Marshmallow or fruit loop or shoe cobbler or whatever the new Android OS is called, it's improved but will still either crash or become IMPOSSIBLY laggy if you really push the boat out and say, open chrome, or Google something, or try and take a photo. Good job I can fit 32 Gb of pictures on my phone when taking a photo in itself causes the app to crash. Mint.

Had to factory reset it 3 times now, also doesn't connect to my laptop or any other PC via USB for some reason, the internal drive just appears blank. Also has the frustrating ability to play and run most recent apps and games, such as Pokemon Go, but play them with such inexplicable lag you'll want to start detaching your own arms just to restrain yourself from doing some serious damage.

This isn't even just one bad example of a faulty device, I've been through three, back and forth through Amazon under warranty as I was so convinced I kept getting unlucky with how bad the phone actually was. The same thing with SD cards, it'll fry them like crazy, currently on my fourth SD card after it corrupted the first 3.

Please buy the 3rd or 4th Gen, some close family of mine have them and they are magnificent for the price, absolutely no qualms whatsoever. Avoid this phone like the plague, I've spent two years convinced I can get it to work consistently and no dice, just do not buy it in the first place.

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